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The event was at the Field Museum in Chicago, a place that I had trooped 10 years ago as one of my first troops so have fond memories. They were showing ESB on the big screen at the Museum on Friday night and Saturday afternoon and evening, with all proceeds going to the museum's childrens outreach programs. We were requested just to troop the last 2 evening shows on Saturday and George was there for a VIP reception before the second from last movie. When we found out about the event a few weeks back, LFL requested only a Darth Vader, a Boba Fett, 4 Stormtroopers and anyone who had an R2-D2 with all the bells and whistles. Anyone who wanted to sign up to troop it had to send pictures of themselves in costume through the Garrison CO to LFL.

A couple weeks later, LFL got back with us and then wanted heights and weights of each person who submitted photos (yeah, I somehow must have slipped by the weight thing. ), and it was LFL themselves who picked which of the costumers who signed up they wanted to troop in the 6 slots they assigned for the 501sters. At first I felt bad as a Fett costumer, knowing the event was to celebrate ESB and my costume was an ROTJ, but folks reminded me they were using an ROTJ Boba as the Celebration 5 logo (celebrating the 30th anniversary of ESB), so if LFL didn't care, I still signed up. It ended up they chose an ANH Vader costumer as the Vader they wanted and brought their own Ewok, so I guess spanned the trilogy. Since it was ESB, we all thought they might have wanted Snowtrooper costumers, but no they didn't.

LFL provided their own Chewbacca and Ewok costumers, I assume being made by ILM:

.....and like all Boba costumers, I HATE how the camera flash washes out the weathering on my jumpsuit and yellow armor.

Our quick chit-chat:

Back to the changing room. Another successful troop done and my first time in almost 11 years of Boba costuming that I had the chance to meet George Lucas!

I personally felt bad, as a Fett costumer, that I didn't own the correct Fett costume for that movie. But, no ESB Fetts signed up for the event and LFL wanted a Boba Fett there, so I still got to costume it.

.....and not a single person in the crowd mentioned I had the wrong Boba. They just saw "Boba Fett".

In real life, my jumpsuit looks seriously grungy, and the horse girth is a darker shade of red then what appears in those pics. It was a dimly lit environment so everyone was using camera flashes.

My next costume projects are adding the silver onto the black piping of my Boba boots to make it more like Magic Of Myth (my main reference for my own suit), new ankle spats, and then a more accurate vest with the really old tackle twill material I picked up from BobaFettish's material run he did like 6 years ago.

So this past Saturday I got to meet George Lucas, and next Saturday Jeremy Bulloch and Daniel Logan are once again rolling into town for my local comic con, and I was also contacted by one of Lucasfilm's illustrators who wants to take pictures of me sometime this week to use as reference for a Boba Fett illustration he's supposed to do so this is quickly turning into the biggest "Fett month" I've ever had.

Jeremy comes to our comic con about every other year, and Daniel has been there a couple times, but just due to the fact hanging with them 7 days after meeting Lucas makes it a killer Boba week for me!